I can't figure out how to quote a closed thread but its in the second paragraph:
http://forums.anarchy-online.com/sho...35#post5622235
I can't figure out how to quote a closed thread but its in the second paragraph:
http://forums.anarchy-online.com/sho...35#post5622235
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Hmm.. I don't think that is exactly what it was.. In his July 3rd post he specifically said that the sponsor system would be for sponsoring two new paying players. I took it to mean that the people you sponsored had to already be paid players in order for this to work.. but since we haven't gotten any information.. either one of us can be correct in our interpretation.
I can understand how this is something that would require a while to get right. I have no idea how they can even do it without it winding up as a giant free-play pyramid scheme. I mean, what is "sponsoring" going to entail, and how are they going to monitor it to make sure that you're not just "sponsoring" your own alts and getting two paid accounts for the price of one? I also imagine noobs being pummeled with "mentor invites" as soon as they hit the beach on noob isle, from hordes of paid players looking formenteesmeal tickets. And given the recent trend toward gouging the existing player base for every little thing (i.e., ITEMSHOP) I also can't imagine that FC is going to get around to doing anything that would result in even a marginal number of paid subscriptions going unpaid any time soon.
Last edited by blingoutyourdead; Jan 11th, 2011 at 18:36:15.
You might be right.. I don't know. I'd just like to know where they are with it since the last posting which was a year ago almost made it seem like it was 'almost' ready... ok.. I LOL'd IRL when I typed that
Personally, as someone that quite often helps newbies without hopes of getting anything in return.. free subscription time seems a bit over the top.. maybe some extra funcom points would be nice and a cool Mentor tag that can be toggled on/off.
Last edited by Traderjill; Jan 11th, 2011 at 18:40:48.
Mentor tag, mentor social armor, not bad! A lot of people, myself included, would not have made it far into the game without carebears, so a little appreciation would be nice.
Hard to get it right, tohugh, as Bling says. Spamming unsuspecting noobs with mentor invites is not the way to go. Maybe they realized that. Something like a voting system, maybe a way to nominate people would be good. Smacks of employee of the month, of course , but I'm sure it's possible to tweak the idea.
A nice side effect would be that ARK could identify "predisposed" players and start a subtle recruitment campaign
I wonder if it wasn't ARKs that got this put on the back burner in the first place. I mean, they don't have the manpower for individual "mentoring," but they have built their entire organization around giving up their own game time to get free play, while essentially providing FC with a zero cost customer support staff. I'm sure at least some of them would have felt a little irked if FC just started giving away free play for players that had not "paid their dues" by working their way up through the ARK ranks, just because those people dragged a couple noobs through SoM now and then.
Could be that you would have to "apply" somehow to unlock the mentor invite feature, and that it would be monitored and people who abused it cut off. Making people go through some vetting by ARK prior to getting this feature turned on would probably cut down on most of the potential abuse of it. They also could just disable it entirely on noob isle, which might be either very sensible, or might defeat its entire purpose.
I can only speak for myself.. but if I had to go through anything with ARK to use the featue I'd probably pass and just continue doing things the way I've done. If I can't figure out how to assist a newbie after playing for almost 7 years then an ARK vetting program isnt going to help me much. I don't mean for this to sound snotty.. but those that need ARK advisement perhaps should apply to ARK directly.. then they can be greeters and such and go up the ladder.
I thought that this mentor program was something like an AO Big Brother/Sister thing.. where we take a newbie under our wing.. help them out and advise them...at least that's what I hope it is
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I'm not saying you don't know how to help a noob. I'm just wondering if FC isn't concerned about screening out wankers and people looking to scam the system by "mentoring" an army of their own alts, or people who would try to get free play while doing the least they could get away with. I'm not sure you can actually prevent that without some human intervention.
What conspiracy theory? I only presented my opinion which is that I personally wasn't interested in signing up for an ARK program. Please troll elsewhere.
And I'm glad you have information about different things but can you point out where someone from Funcom has addressed it, either via an in-game discussion or post on the forums, in the past 8 months or so? When was the fan convention?
I'm just asking for an update.. and have been asking for that update for some time as evidenced by the links I posted. I'm not sure why you have an issue with people asking for updates on things that Funcom chose to announce to us. As I stated in another thread, they are the ones bringing this to us.. not the other way around.
Last edited by Traderjill; Jan 12th, 2011 at 15:39:44.
Last edited by Roswell; Jan 13th, 2011 at 00:15:30. Reason: Posting from iPhone fail!
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Thor Mastablasta Hammersmith - Level 220, AI 30, LE 70 Clan Atrox Nano Technician - Setup
The Red Brotherhood
I'm a Nano-Technician, don't ever expect me to fight unbuffed, alone or fair.
Means: about f'ing time :P
Satenia: heresy <3
Znore: Mastablasta <3
Kinkstaah: I have agro from many mobs ;(
Madarab: we are aoe class, we are supose to use pistols
Marxgorm: the NT toolset does not fit into my raiding tactics